Articles on Israeli Judaism

Selichot refreshments

A Sweet Eretz-Israeli Elul

How did the happiest month of the year become a month of fear?

Who Is the Father Who Died in the Song “Met Av U’Met Elul”?

Three fathers created one song over the course of a thousand years

Jewish History Through a Stretcher

Jewish History Through a Stretcher

The essence of history from the perspective of a reserve soldier

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Left-Right, Jewish-Israeli

Two vital voices for the model state

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Who Is the Mysterious Beloved of the Song of Songs?

It is customary to read the Song of Songs on Passover; beyond the springtime that suffuses the scroll, there is another fascinating connection

Even a man who fought five Arab armies finds it hard to look at the brit milah of an eight-day-old baby

Brit milah isn’t simple. And yet: Hineni

How is it that one of the hardest mitzvot in Judaism has the highest observance rate?

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The secret of the storytellers

Why the Torah almost never talks about abstract values, and why army education lesson plans are doomed to failure

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What Frightens the Haredim Most About Zionism?

Zionism carried out four major revolutions. The fourth was the most radical

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Atheism Lost. Secularism Won

And what are the three foundational secular values?

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The Halacha That Grows from the People – Questions and Answers

Following the article "If Boaz Had Asked Rabbis, King David Would Never Have Been Born"

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Not a New Judaism, but a Broad Judaism

Is Israeli tribalism a curse?

A garland instead of ashes

The Branches That Rose from the Ashes

How an olive grove in the Galilee helped me understand the verse "a garland instead of ashes"

The Borders of the Land

How the Borders of the Land Shaped the Israeli Character

The detailed borders in Parashat Masei tell us a great deal about who we are

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The Biggest Mistake About the Term “Masorti”

On a Judaism of rebellion and a Judaism of tradition

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What Is the Most Beloved Sin in the Tanakh?

On the Ma'apilim on the mountain - for Parashat Shelach

Boaz and Ruth

If Boaz Had Asked Rabbis, King David Would Never Have Been Born

Halakha is shaped in a pincer movement

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